Dr. Quiñones received his Bachelor of Science and Master of Science at Yale University, graduating
02/11/2021
Another year, shared hope.
As the new year begins, most of the world is hoping for a better future than the last year. The COVID-19 epidemic brought great difficulty and sadness to such a great many people, the next year we all await with renewed hope.Some things did improve. We are now able to communicate with patients bette...
Fear of cancer, overtreatment, listening to patients.
A great deal of our current medical care involves cancer. Most of us have an inherent fear of this dreaded disease. However, we do indeed have the ability to cure a significant number of the patients who have this diagnosis. This high success rate still has not reduced the inherent fears and has rai...
01/19/2021
Dr. Quiñones is considered a top surgeon in Atlanta. He received his Bachelor of Science and Master of Science at Yale University, graduating with the highest honors, summa cm Claude. Dr. Quiñones received his MD from Harvard Medical School, also with cm Claude honors.
Cancer, getting lost, and navigating your way back to survival.
Last week we talked about surgery cancer and COVID-19. Some of the things discussed concerned the ways in which postponing cancer surgery causes stress on patients, as well as thinking that it is still unclear how that delay affects survival. But even without the current pandemic, cancer all by itse...
01/13/2021
Surgery, Cancer and COVID-19.
One of the major concerns that patients have had concerns the delay in surgery that is occurring because of COVID-19. Hospitals are concerned with potentially overloading their intensive care facilities. Therefore, they are postponing surgery deemed to be elective or not urgent. This has included pa...
With the impending availability of a potential COVID-19 vaccine appearing on the horizon, I thought it might be a good time to even consider the origin of the vaccine. The very first vaccine was the result of studies done in the late 1700’s by Edward Jenner in England. It was noticed that milkmaid...
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Dr. Quiñones received his Bachelor of Science and Master of Science at Yale University, graduating with the highest honors, summa cm laude. He received his MD from Harvard Medical School, also with cm laude honors.
He completed his surgery training at the Harvard Brigham and Women’s Hospital and while there was selected for a clinical surgical oncology fellowship with the American Cancer Society. As part of this, he investigated the molecular biology of cancer as a Cancer Research Fellow at the Dana Farber Cancer Institute sorting out a portion of the tyrosine kinase signaling pathways for PDGF in K-ras mutated cells. For this research, Dr. Quiñones was published in nationally recognized journals.
Dr. Quiñones has consistently been named a Top Surgeon by the Consumers Research Council of America and Castle Connolly. He has also been a consistent Top Doctor in Atlanta Magazine.
Dr. Quiñones has had a strong commitment to the Atlanta community for over 24 years. He reached out very early on into the Lithonia community and was there from the ground up, actually performing the very first surgery done at the local hospital and continuing to work in several campus locations. He has a strong outreach into the Hispanic community with his Puerto Rican heritage and speaks fluent Spanish.
He is board-certified, a fellow of the American College of Surgeons, a longstanding member of the Society of Surgical Oncology, and has been a member of the Association of Academic Surgeons, American Society of Clinical Oncology, and the American Society of Breast Surgeons. While in the Society of Surgical Oncology, Dr. Quiñones became the Chairman of the Committee of Community Surgeons and served on the Executive Council of that organization. That role helped to define and integrate the community surgeons into the larger academic body of that society.
In his career, Dr. Quiñones has held numerous leadership positions. He has been Chief of the section of General Surgery, Chief of Surgery, Vice Chief and then Chief of Staff. He has served on numerous committees and has helped to shape a number of bylaws and policies. He has served on the Cancer Committees and was part of a temporary Executive Cancer Committee created specifically to improve cancer care across all service lines.
Dr. Quiñones had served as a longstanding member of a hospital Board of Directors, and while in that capacity, he completed a term as Chair of the Quality Committee and has served on several other committees or ad hoc groups for strategic planning. His history of helping to create an independent surgical group, subsequently creating another employed surgical group, extensively collaborating with both employed and independent physicians, and reaching out to the minority community brings a unique perspective to the prospect of the advancement of quality surgical care for this region.
